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Watching Fox News coverage of the mass shootings and you see that they have come back to an old stand by when it comes to blame for the shootings.

Fox News wanted to cast the blame for 30 people dead and scores injured on video games.

You see the video game industry does not pay millions of dollars to the GOP like the NRA, so the game makers are the ones that Fox News will cast the blame on.

It is here that we should point out that millions of people in Japan, Canada and other countries around the world play those very same video games and their people do not go on mass shooting sprees killing people.

Over on CNN, Brian Stelter’s minon Oliver Darcy says that he remembers when personalties on Fox News demanded Obama call radical Islamic extremism for what it is. Darcy says that he is now waiting for these same personalities to demand Trump call this violence for what it is: “white supremacist terrorism. “

I remember, just a few years ago, when personalties on Fox and in conservative talk radio demanded Obama call radical Islamic extremism for what it is.

I'm waiting for these same personalities to demand Trump call THIS violence for what it is: White supremacist terrorism. pic.twitter.com/Ro1SbHAT4e
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 4, 2019

My question to Darcy and others is if Obama said “radical Islamic extremism” or Trump says “white supremacist terrorism“ what does it change.

Does saying the words bring the victims back to life?

Cable news wants to make the shootings political. If Trump said that this was “white supremacist terrorism” would the shootings stop?

No.

The problem is that it is way too easy to get a gun in this country. A kid has to pass a test to drive a car, but just about anyone can buy a gun with no test, no training.

Before the gun people come chime in, I’m all for people owning guns. You want a gun for protection? I have no problem with that and I own a gun myself. I also have gone through training and regularly continue to train with my gun.

But, what is the reason for assault rifles in the hands of the public? Is someone hunting a deer with an assault rifle? Do people have an assault rifle sitting next to the bed for home protection?

We have to do something about guns. That is the solution and the only solution period. Stronger background checks, a ban of assault weapons for the general public and whatever else we can come up with to stop people from getting killed at Walmart and other places.

The NRA is giving away millions of dollars to politicians to let guns be easy to get and do anything they can to stop sensible laws being put in place.

I and many others don’t want a ban on guns, we just want them in the hands of people that take the responsibility of owning a gun very serious.

Yes these idiots in this weekend’s shootings were “white supremacists” and filled with hate. I have no problem calling them that, but doing so doesn’t change a thing.

And it sure has hell is not video games either.

Cable news needs to address the real problem and stop trying to blame sides.

The problem is the guns and if you are too stupid not to figure that out, or or want to make it political